14 CROW. 



7— BALD CROW. 



Corvus calvus, Ind. Orn. i. 153. Gm. Lin. i. 372. Shaw's Zool. vii. 352. 

 Choncas chauve, Buf. iii. 80. PI. enl. 521. 

 Le Chauve, Levail. Am. Sf Ind. i. 147. pi. 49. 

 Coracine, Tern. Man. Ed. ii. Anal. p. lxii. 

 Bald Crow, Gen. Syn. i. 383. 



THIS is thirteen inches in length. Bill strong, rather bent, and 

 dusky black ; the breadth at the base about half of the total length ; 

 plumage, on the upper parts of the bird, ferruginous brown, beneath 

 paler, inclining to red ; upper tail coverts the same ; the fore part of 

 the head, as far as the crown, and beyond the eyes, totally bare of 

 feathers, and the chin but sparingly covered with them. This bald- 

 ness is probably the effect of rooting into the ground with the bill, in 

 the manner of our Rook, and will account for the want of feathers 

 in the same parts, as in that bird. 



Inhabits Cayenne. — Mr. Levaillant says, it is common through- 

 out Guiana, and known there by the negroes, under the name of 

 Oiseau mon Pere, having, as they think, the robe of the Capucins, 

 who are so called. The male said to be a trifle bigger than the 

 female, and when young, the head covered with feathers as well as 

 the nostrils : in some the chin is also destitute of feathers, and like 

 the rest of the head. Mr. L. ranks this bird among his Cotingas, or 

 Chatterers. 



One of these, in the collection of Mr. M'Leay, brought from 

 Berbice, was called Kwaa. 



